Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Town Under Siege This CBS documentary with Ed Bradley was a dramatic, well-argued exercise in muckraking. A little-known loophole exempts oil companies from laws on hazardous-waste disposal, and cbs showed how one poor town suffers as a result. Forget Matt Damon in The Rainmaker--the kid lawyer in this case is twice as appealing...
...Practice Set in a small, scrappy law firm, ABC's The Practice is a very entertaining melodrama, even if it breaks no new ground. The cast is good, especially Michael Badalucco as a struggling personal-injury lawyer, and the scripts are smartly plotted, with some humor thrown in too. As our hero, Dylan McDermott manages not only to have good hair but also to seem genuinely savvy and charismatic...
...American modernism, part of the circle of painters whose hearth was the little 291 gallery in New York City and whose tireless promoter, supporter and voice in the desert was Alfred Stieglitz. Dove's father, a well-off Geneva, N.Y., brick manufacturer, expected his son to be a lawyer and never wholly forgave him for becoming an artist. To Dove, as to the more conflicted Hartley, Stieglitz was mentor, friend and (virtually) a second father. Starting before World War I, Dove's slow-maturing, thoughtful and deeply felt art gathered up the strands of American nature worship and braided them...
...Quote of the Day: "You can't do a slapdash job of the trial of the man who is the world's main terrorist," said Ilich's new lawyer. He'd ditched his old attorneys on Friday...
...Gigante will trade in his bathrobe and slippers for 12 years in prison duds, U.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein ruled Thursday. Having already decided that the "Oddfather" had been faking his mental illness, Weinstein imposed a fine of $1.2 million and brushed off pleas from Gigante's lawyer and family (not "family") that the mobster be allowed to spend "his final days" under house detention. Gigante has a host of physical maladies; the judge allowed for his early release if he becomes terminally...